No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

(John Stuart Mill)

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

(Scott Adams)

“IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot’s activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but “pervades and regulates the whole.” He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.”

(Ambrose Bierce)

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

(James Thurber )

"The mind's own basic nature is ultimately neutral. It can be influenced by
negative as well as by positive emotions. Take, for instance, those who have a short tempter. When I was young I was quite short-tempered. However, the mood never lasted for twenty-four hours. If negative emotions are in the very nature of our mind, then as long as the mind is functioning the anger must remain. That, however is not the case. Similarly, positive emotions are also not in the nature of the mind. The mind is something neutral, reflecting all sorts of different experiences or phenomena."